AuthorTopic: YouTube's videos now available over IPv6 (Read 21541 times)

So while it hasn't been officially announced by Google/YouTube, yesterday around 1PM Pacific they pushed out AAAA records for their caching/streaming servers. If you are using Google white-listed recursors, and have IPv6 connectivity, you'll be watching videos served over IPv6. This is probably one of the (if not THE) largest pushes of content onto IPv6.

~$ host v10.lscache8.c.youtube.comv10.lscache8.c.youtube.com is an alias for v10.lscache8.l.google.com.v10.lscache8.l.google.com has address 74.125.103.84v10.lscache8.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:4001:402::14

Heh yeh I noticed when I was watching one of my subscription vids yesterday (I think it was yesterday) and gkrellm started showing a lot of traffic over the HE tunnel interface and realized the content was coming over IPv6 now. Then a bit later I read that post in ipv6-ops. Pretty big deal, and just a few days ago Comcast announced an IPv6 trial for users.

It was announced and demonstrated (with tcpdump running) at Cisco Networkers 2010-01-28 in Barcelona, Spain, where they showed a video of the late "Itojun" (Dr. Junichiro Hagino).

From the program:

Abstract:

As we approach from the time where the IPv4 address pool will be fully exhausted, migration to IPv6 becomes an urgent item in all network managers' agenda. A number of Internet community leaders have already started this migration process. They will describe how they are working through the IPv6 transition, exposing their own deployment success and challenges.